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Detailed map of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia, with a small portion in Eastern Europe. [1] With an area of about 2,724,900 square kilometers (1,052,100 sq mi) Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska.
Geography of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is: a landlocked country; Location: Kazakhstan is a region or subregion of: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere. Eurasia. Asia. Central Asia; Europe. Eastern Europe (a small portion only; 381,567 km 2) Time zone: Kazakhstan Time UTC+5; Extreme points of Kazakhstan. High: Khan Tengri 7,010 m (22,999 ft)
After the administrative reform in 1997, the last change happened since then took place in 1999, when parts of North Kazakhstan that originally belonged to Kokshetau region became part of Akmola. The 1990s merges were in order to dilute the Russian population in the resulting region and to avoid having regions where Russians form a majority.
Throughout history, peoples on the territory of modern Kazakhstan had nomadic lifestyle, which developed and influenced Kazakh culture. Human activity in the region began with the extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus one million–800,000 years ago in the Karatau Mountains and the Caspian and Balkhash areas.
Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion situated in Eastern Europe. [f] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.
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Beyneu District (Kazakh: Бейнеу ауданы, romanized: Beineu audany) is a district of Mangystau Region in south-western Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the auyl of Beyneu. [3] The district's population was 68,285 in 2018. [4] The Census population in 2009 was 46,937 and in 1999 had been 26,548. [5]